IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76988 accession number: EC.6C-1943 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast with applied details, painted over lead-glaze in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, orange, dark pink, red, and black enamels, and gilt. The closed underside has three patch marks and a small circular ventilation hole near the back. The approximately circular base has slightly incurved sides with three kidney-shaped holes between scrolls on each side, and at the front, an asymmetrical cartouche inscribed ‘AFRICA’ in gold. At the back there is a low tree stump covered in applied flowers and foliage. In front of it stands a lion with its head on the viewer’s right. The young black boy stands on his right leg with his left bent and resting on the lion’s back. He looks towards his right, and holds a lobster in his right hand in front of him, and, with his left arm holds a cornucopia filled with corn and flowers to his left side. He has black skin and wears a cream and pale orange elephant’s head headdress, a coral necklace, and a pink and turquoise drape with gold edges. There are groups of orange and yellow, and dark pink and yellow flowers and leaves on the ground in front of him. The base is picked out in turquoise, pink, and gold. object type: Soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels, and gilt; inscribed 'AFRICA' on the front of the base title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before donor LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Angus W.C. Crisp in memory of his father, George Crisp STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76988 PEOPLE ------------------- Africa SUBJECTS ------------------- cornucopia lion cornucopia lion TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain slip-cast with moulded details, painted over lead-glaze in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, orange, dark pink, red, and black enamels, and gilt; the closed underside has three patch marks, and a small circular ventilation hole near the back. slip casting TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1780 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1780 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory maker: William Duesbury & Co. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: in value: 8 7/8 CITATIONS -------- Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 Derby Porcelain's Four Quarters of the Globe Figures --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/EC_6C__1943_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_EC_6C__1943_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/EC_6C__1943_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_EC_6C__1943_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/EC_6C__1943_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_EC_6C__1943_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/EC_6C__1943_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_EC_6C__1943_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/EC_6C__1943_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_EC_6C__1943_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/EC_6C__1943_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_EC_6C__1943_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels